Mamdani tenant advocate breaks down crying when asked about hypocritical gentrification comments

 Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly instated radical-left tenant advocate, Cea Weaver, broke down Wednesday as she dodged questions from reporters about her gentrification hypocrisy.

The 37-year-old, who has faced backlash for blasting homeownership as a “weapon of white supremacy” in the past, teared up when she emerged briefly from her apartment building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, at about 9 a.m.

Weaver, who was tapped by Mamdani to be his new director of the city Office to Protect Tenants, quickly ran back inside after she was asked about the $1.6 million home her mother owns in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Cea Weaver seen crying in Brooklyn on Jan. 7, 2026.Gregory P. Mango

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Housing activists gather to protest alleged tenant harassment by a landlord and call for cancellation of rent.Getty Images

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Weaver’s mother is a professor at a prestigious college and boasts a $1.6 million home in Tennessee.Google Maps

Interest in Mamdani’s hire kicked off after some of her old social media posts — in which the Rochester transplant railed against gentrification — resurfaced last week.

“There is no such thing as a ‘good’ gentrifier, only people who are actively working on projects to dismantle white supremacy and capitalism and people who aren’t,” Weaver wrote in a 2018 post.

“Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy,” she said in a 2019 post.

https://nypost.com/2026/01/07/us-news/zohran-mamdanis-tenant-advocate-cea-weaver-breaks-down-crying-when-asked-about-hypocritical-gentrification-comments/